⚠️ Storm Éowyn - Fri 24.01.25 (**Please read Mod Instruction in OP.**)

Understandable. I've no doubt the weather will trump all on the news tonight.

Am I correct in saying latest charts show strong, but touching on somewhere inbetween yellow and orange levels, for some parts of the far SE, e.g. Wexford up as far as mid-Wicklow?

MÉ's symbol forecast gives a mean speed wind of 123km/h for my part of Galway City at 5am tomorrow. Scary stuff.

Windchill -18°c! Hah!

A lot of rural areas have alert schemes and clubs. We are members ourselves. It's good to get out and about and chat.

Sorry for taking this off topic.

Youd swear people in their 70s and 80s were the mental equivelent of 4 year olds the way some people go on.

These are people who would have been in their 40 or 50s when mobile phones came out, not living in caves smashing rocks off each other.

Public transport my not be available

I think the big issue for somewhere like Cork city (I live near the centre) is how far inland the sustained winds and gusts will be, and the direction of the wind. We all have a natural bias as to what we think/feel a Yellow/Orange/Red wind looks like.

I've seen Orange warning storms where Roches Point or Sherkin picked up 120km/h, but Cork Airport got 100km/h or so and it 'felt like a yellow', and I've seen Yellow warning storms where it 'felt like an orange', and Cork Airport gusted 105km/h or something.

There are so many variables when you get inland, and I think the further away we are from the coast, the more our poor human estimates of the local wind speed kick in.

I think that even if Roches Point never blows over 130km/h, we could still see massive gusts in Cork city up to 120km/h which could be as notable as anything in Ophelia.

Storm Darragh was notable 'in my back garden', wrecking a ton of my kids outdoor stuff and was the 'worst since Ophelia'. Orange event. So I'm expecting something as messy as that at a minimum.

They won't pull anywhere out of red I suspect - but as we get closer to the storm's arrival Cork looks more of an orange to me (though they are dead right to keep everywhere red - there's always a risk of a more southerly track for landfall and its a much simpler message to say that everywhere is red). Notwithstanding our south west location in Cork, on a few models there are higher gusts forecast for north county Dublin than for down here. Given we took the brunt of Ophelia, Darwin, and others in the last 11 years, 120km gusts down here are less likely to knock trees / cause damage than they would in the midlands and east coast where such gusts are much rarer.

In terms of crazy gusts, north Clare, pretty much all of Galway and South Mayo is likely to take the brunt, with gusts of 150km+ looking near inevitable right now. That's gotta cause a lot of damage.

Can we still get gust information from our lighthouses and buoys? For Ophelia, Fastnet recorded 191km. I wonder will that be beaten at sea somewhere?

On the Six One news last night, directly after the report about the goings-on in the Dail, Keith Leonard from the National Co-Ordination Committee used these exact words 'Probably one of the severest storms Ireland has ever seen'. No ambiguity. No flaffing. 'One of the severest storms Ireland has ever seen'. Its baffling to think that people are still unaware that we are in for a rough time of it.

Can't find any issued later than 5pm yesterday. (Normally they'd issue a TAF at 8am, but may not account for much tomorrow).

If interested, just Google "XXX airport TAF" or go onto OGIMET and use their search. You will need to know the ICAO code (eg SNN = EINN, KIR = EIKY)

As it stands, max gusts forecast at the 5 main Irish airports until 6am tomorrow.

Shannon : 80kts

Knock: 75kts

Dublin: 65kts

Cork: 60kts

Belfast: 60kts.

RTE radio news just announced that all medical appointments are cancelled tomorrow. They certainly were heavier on the warnings on the 10am news than they were at 9am.

This is very high end orange if it was though. To see 70 to 80mph wind gusts in my location in north cork on a number of models is very very rare. I think there will be a lot of damage to be honest if this materialises.

I didn't even know about the storm until my daughters school sent out a notice the place was closed tomorrow.

Yeah we're waiting for an update from the Dublin Coach